billy woods

Album Overview

GOLLIWOG is billy woods first album in two years, preceded by 2023s Maps, his second collaboration with producer Kenny Segal. That nimble travelogue has little in common with woods newest work, despite the fact that Segal shows up a couple times in the credits. GOLLIWOG is a haunting collection that weaves horror, humor, surrealism and Afropessimism into a cinematic tapestry, aided and abetted by a murderers row of producers.

Notable Themes and Features

African zombies, time traveling trap cars, malevolent ragdolls and a dying Frantz Fanon are just a few of the revelers in woods danse macabre. GOLLIWOG features production from:

• The Alchemist
• Kenny Segal
• EL-P
• Conductor Williams
• Preservation
• Messiah Musik
• Sadhugold
• Ant (Atmosphere)
• Shabaka Hutchings
• Steel Tipped Dove
• DJ Haram
• Willie Green
• Jeff Markey
• Saint Abdullah
• LA-based experimental jazz trio Human Error Club

Collaborations

Meanwhile, woods is joined on the mic by Backwoodz labelmates ELUCID and Cavalier, along with rappers Bruiser Wolf, Despot, Al.Divino, and singer-songwriter Yolanda Watson.

GOLLIWOG is another triumph in the woods oeuvre, as layered and compelling as anything he has ever done. A black carnival pitched in a muddy field overnight, empty rides whirring and clattering in the dark.

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